HOME RULE BILL

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1920, Page 1

HOME RULE BILL

■Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) & lU3UTER.] (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, June b. In the Commons, Government accepted an amendment to the Home Rule Bill providing that the transfer of Irish Constabulary should not be mndo until three years after the Bill came into operation. , Hon Walter Long promised favourable consideration of a suggestion made bySir E. Carson, ' that when two parliaments by an identical act called for the transfer of the Royal Irish constabulary, it should be wound up, and the members suitably compensated and schemes for a- police force framed b.) both parliaments. lion Long also undertook to consider favourably a suggestion that during the transition period, the constabulary would be vested in a Minister, not a Committee of five as proposed in the Bill. Hon Long stated if the forecasts made by many speakers were true, and if the only use to be made by the southern parliament of its powers was to try to establish a Republic or a government unworthy of the name of Government, the Bill would be suspended and would not come into operation and the Imperial Parliament would be compelled to take such notion as was necessary i s o as to restore order.